Jaiseri Writes

  Letters to a Young Poet is a book of collection of 10 letters sent by Rainer Maria Rilke to Mr. Kappus(Franz Xavier Kappus), a student at Theresian Military Academy in Austria. Rilke previously studied at the lower school of same academy at Sankt Poelten(wikipedia). Rilke quit his study there and pursued his career as poet. Mr. Kappus was in dilema on whether he should be poet as Rilke or pursue his military career. The letters are what Rilke has to say about being a poet and other matters such as reading, love, sex, self-understanding, solitude, patience, difficulties in life, god and so on. The letters date from February 17th, 1903 to   26th December(the day after christmas), 1908. So, they are basically more than a hundred years old letters and yet they can help reader to understand life as a whole. Or at least it makes one move in a direction to understand life. Normally, I start reading with my head full of doubts and an eagerness to reject the ideas in any boo...

  I had longed to read Kafka since long. Whenever any writer was mentioned in any book or any article, I would keep him and his writing in my want-to-read-list. Kafka was one among them. The Metamorphosis is an English translation for Kafka's Die Verwandlung in German. Gregor Samsa, a travelling salesman, wakes up and finds out that he has turned into an insect. He being the breadwinner of his family worries about his family more than about himself and recalls his plans for his family. His family members hope for his recovery in the beginning but later give up on such hope and he becomes 'something' they want to get rid of. George complies their wish. I took his transformation as a metaphor for being crippled and useless for the family. The way family percieved him in the beginning and at the end changes to a great extent. This made me think that we all are selfish and are bound to each other due to our self-interest. Gregor was much worried about his family when ...

सेतो धरती by Amar Nyaupane My rating: 2 of 5 stars सेतो धर्ती अमर न्यौपानेको एक उत्कृष्ट कृति भनेर चिनिन्छ । न्यौपानेले एकल महिलाको गर्भ देखि मृत्यु प्रतिक्षाको घडिसम्मको कथानकलाई उपन्यासको रुप दिएका छन् । देवघाटमा आफूले भेटेकी एक वृद्धासँगको सामान्य कुराकानीका क्रममा उनको मनमा यो उपन्यासको जन्भ भएको छ । ती वृद्धाका जीवनका महत्वपूर्ण घटनालाई उपन्यासकी ‘म’ पात्र ताराको जीवनको साँचो बनाएर बाँकी कथा र उपकथाहरु बनाइएको छ । देवघाटमा बसेर ३० दिनको अनुसन्धान पछि उपन्यासले यो रुप पाएको छ । उपन्यास पढ्दा एउटा जीवन पढियोः दुःख, निराशा र कुण्ठाले भरिएको जीवन । विहेको नाममा केटाकेटीको खेल भन्दा बढ्ता केही नजानेकी ताराको सात वर्षको वाल्यावस्थामा झुक्याएर विहे गरिइन्छ । नौ वर्षमा पति वितेपछि उनको जीवनको रंग खोसिन्छ । उनलाई पतिको अनुहार समेत सम्झना हुँदैन तर लुगा, गहना र कपालको मायाले बढि भकानिन्छिन् । उनको यो भोगाइबाट बचाउन उनका आमाबाले पनि केहि गर्न सक्दैनन् । त्यसपछि विस्तारै किशोरावस्था आउँछ, बैंस आउँछ, प्रौढावस्था आउँछ र वृद्ध भएर मृत्यु पर्खने अवस्था सम्म उनी पुग्छिन् । त्यसक्रममा उपन...

‘खनेर हेर्ने हो भने यहाँका प्रत्येक घरहरुका जगमा त्यहाँ फगत हल्लै हल्ला थुप्रिएको पाइनेछ । त्यसैले यो हल्लै हल्लाको देश हो यो हल्लै हल्लामाथि उभिएको देश हो’ भूपी शेरचनको ‘यो हल्लै हल्लाको देश हो’ कविताका यी हरफहरुले हाम्रो देश र देशवासीको चरित्र धेरै हदसम्म चित्रण गरेको छ । यहाँ सबै कुरा हल्लाका भरमा हुन्छ । पहिले एक कान दुई कान मैदान हुन्थ्यो अहिले सामाजिक सञ्जालका प्रकाशनहरु मार्फत हल्लाहरु फैलिन्छन् । तिनमै आधारित भएर विभिन्न बुद्धिजिवीहरुले आफ्ना अड्कलबाजी र पूर्वाग्रहका आडमा देशको भूत, वर्तमान र भविष्य लेख्छन् । फेरी तिनको लेखाइलाई दावा गर्ने अर्को जत्था तथानाम गर्दै तिनले लेखेको भूत, वर्तमान र भविष्यको अर्को पाटो लेख्न भ्यउँछन् । हल्लै गर्छन् । त्यो भन्दा माथि केहि गर्न भ्याउँदैनन् । प्रधानमन्त्री प्रचण्डको ४ दिने भारत भ्रमणका क्रममा पनि थुप्रै हल्लाहरु भए । पहिले त ती हल्लाहरुका विषय प्रम पत्नीको बाँधेको हातको र उनले देखाएको शिष्टाचार भए । जसले जति जे भनेपनि र जति नै हल्ला गरेपनि स्वदेश फर्केर पत्रकार सम्मेलन गर्ने बेलामा समेत प्रमपत्नीको बाँधेको हात हल्लाउन सकिएन ...